We help clients move beyond regulatory requirements to focus on action that helps them understand and mitigate climate and nature-related risks.
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Climate change and biodiversity loss represent long-term, systemic risks that increase the uncertainty of outcomes for investors.
We help our clients move beyond regulatory requirements to use their portfolios for change, realise potential opportunities and hold others to account.
Asset owners need to plan actions to achieve climate ambitions and create positive change. Our advice and support helps clients integrate climate change considerations into their investment and governance arrangements.
Integrating climate change into an investment strategy, or bringing a strategy into line with a net zero ambition, can be complex. Our five-step plan helps clients focus on knowledge building, understanding the baseline, making the most of the levers of change, action planning and monitoring.
We help our clients focus on the big issues in their investment arrangements, including emissions reduction, transition alignment and climate solutions. We highlight practical action and support clients to document their commitments with climate transition action plans that create accountability a baseline for reporting progress.
Understanding how climate change might impact investment outcomes informs decision-making. We’ve integrated climate scenario analysis into our asset liability modelling abilities, so we can demonstrate possible impacts on funding and investment outcomes. We’ve also created detailed narrative scenarios that allow nuanced conversations which build understanding and evolve risk management.
We also help clients understand how their strategy links to transition scenarios using our carbon pathway analysis tool. This identifies areas for further exploration, helping clients set meaningful milestones and prioritise short-term goals.
Our research team review and evaluate investment products and strategies that support our investment advice. Drawing on our market insight, we help clients identify investment opportunities in areas like emerging climate solutions, which we build into our advice.
We analyse strategies and portfolios, highlighting climate exposures, metrics and trends to support decision-making and assess progress. Drawing on industry data sources and our own research, our regular reporting supports both Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) reporting and net zero journey planning. We help clients evaluate stewardship activity and use available data to inform decision-making and challenge asset managers.
We support all aspects of TCFD reporting and climate governance, from tailored training to creating climate risk management dashboards. We work with clients to help them meet regulatory reporting requirements and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
Education on net zero
78% of clients covering 95% of assets under advice have received meaningful education on net zero (31 December 2023).
Building a net zero strategy
Over the last three years, we’ve helped over 30 clients start building a net zero strategy.
Meaningful climate impact
Our clients have committed over £1bn to real asset strategies with meaningful climate impact.
Partnering
We worked with the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change to develop guidance on integrating net zero considerations into private debt investments.
In 2020, we pledged to integrate climate change into our research, services and advice. We continue to meet that commitment.
As founding signatories to the Net Zero Investment Consultants Initiative, we play our part to stay at the forefront of supporting and encouraging net zero reporting. Our latest UK Stewardship Code Report shows our progress.
Details of our climate capabilities assessed against the Investment Consultants Sustainability Working Group (ICSWG) climate competency matrix can be found here.
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COP29 faced criticisms around lobbying and lack of scale of action, but some important agreements were completed. For example, $300bn per year for developing nations was agreed to address climate issues.
The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) took place in Cali, Colombia from 21 October to 1 November 2024. Like their climate counterpart (including COP29), the biodiversity COP conferences bring together representatives from all countries that are parties to the convention.
In this episode of Hymans Robertson On… Investment, our host Amy Sutherland is joined by Tom Prince, Investment Associate Consultant at Hymans Roberston and Peichi Wong from Global Canopy for a discussion on deforestation and what it might mean for future investors
We discuss the environmental impact of AI and its contribution to global carbon emissions, the dual role of AI in both enhancing security whilst also posing a significant privacy risks, and the focus on governance to mitigate these risks.
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